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Ari Jerrems
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Borders | neighbouring | political geographies | IPS | convenor of @acbsnetwork.bsky.social
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Today is publication day for my book "The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain": bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-spatial-... 1/8
The Spatial Limits of Political Community
The Spatial Limits of Political Community - Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain; Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell ...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
The official book launch of The Spatial Limits of Political Community was great fun last night.

Huge thanks to Ethan Blue, Jamal Barnes and Nardine Alnemr for their kind and thoughtful comments on the book and Megan Price for being a stellar chair.
October 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Today is publication day for my book "The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain": bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-spatial-... 1/8
The Spatial Limits of Political Community
The Spatial Limits of Political Community - Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain; Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell ...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
September 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Ari Jerrems (@arijerrems.bsky.social), The Spatial Limits of Political Community: Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain - @brisunipress.bsky.social, September 2025
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-spatial-...
The Spatial Limits of Political Community
The Spatial Limits of Political Community - Bordering the Neighbour in Urban Spain; Through analysis of political events in Madrid, Spain, this book explores what the figure of the neighbour can tell ...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We have an ongoing Lecturer (International Relations) position open at UWA

We encourage interdisciplinary applicants, including political geography, political sociology, political psychology, and critical security studies.

Full description and details here: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au
August 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Inspiring scenes coming out of Sydney today.

Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza
NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protested
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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And another honourable mention to Zali Fung for her paper: Fung, Z. (2024). Amorphous infrastructure: Contesting the proposed Yuam River water diversion project in the Salween River Basin. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(6), 2386-2412. doi.org/10.1177/2514...
Congratulations to all!
July 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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We had fantastic submissions this year and would like to give honourable mentions to two papers, including Henrietta McNeill: McNeill, H. (2023). Deportation as a neo-colonial act: how deporting state influence extends beyond the border. Political Geography, 102, 102845. doi.org/10.1016/j.po...
July 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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We are very happy to announce the winner of the 2025 Political Geography ECR/HDR Paper Award goes to Miriam Deprez for her article titled ‘Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine’. Congratulations! Full article: doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
Visual Necropolitics and Visual Violence: Theorizing Death, Sight, and Sovereign Control of Palestine
Abstract. The Israeli military’s occupation of Palestinian territory relies heavily on its ability to shape the visual environment and set the terms of how
doi.org
July 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
There are two jobs going in the School of Social Sciences at UWA.

In Human Geography: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...

And Anthropology: external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : IN DEVELOPMENT
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au
June 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The deadline for the IAG @polgeographygroup.bsky.social Paper Award has been extended until Friday the 30th of May. Do submit a paper if you haven't done so already. 500$ AUD are up for grabs! Full guidelines and requirements: politicalgeographyaus.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/i...
IAG Political Geography HDRs and Early Career Paper Award 2025
The Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG) Political Geography Study Group Award will award AUD 500.00 to the best paper on a political geography topic published by an ECR/HDR candidate that is …
politicalgeographyaus.wordpress.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more-than-military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwe...
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...
Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration
Get tickets on Humanitix - Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration . Online. Wednesday 16th April 2025. Find event information.
events.humanitix.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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🥷🏿🥷🏿🥷🏿💜💜💜💜 un lujo compartir espacio con gran parte de la gente de la #RockSchool (nombre en homenaje a Paco Peñas 😜) del @geri_uam. @gea-uam.bsky.social @uam.es
Thrilled to receive a copy of this new and important textbook on critical international relations theory in Spanish and to have a chapter in it with my good friend Melody Fonseca based on work we have been doing together for many years now @itziarrga.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Thrilled to receive a copy of this new and important textbook on critical international relations theory in Spanish and to have a chapter in it with my good friend Melody Fonseca based on work we have been doing together for many years now @itziarrga.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Greetings from Chicago!
February 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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#BREAKING All five artistic teams shortlisted for the 61st Venice Biennale have released a joint statement in support of winning duo Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino who were dumped by Creative Australia following media and political pressure.

The group calls for them to be reinstated.
February 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Call for Sessions for IAG 2025: please send your proposal to our convenors by 22 Feb if you would like it to be sponsored by the Political Geography Study Group. More details below!
February 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
My book on the spatial limits of political community is now in production! To be released in September 👀
February 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Join us — 13 March in Canberra for the launch of TEMPORARY: we wanted workers but we got people — an exhibition of images & stories of temporary migration from the Pacific to Australia.
By Matt Withers, Kirstie Petrou, Jeanette Tanghwa, Ema Moolchand, and me.
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/temporary-...
Temporary: We wanted workers but we got people
Images and stories of temporary labour migration from the Pacific.
www.eventbrite.com.au
February 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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NEW: remember Joe the pigeon, who supposedly flew to Australia all the way from the US? In this essay I explore Joe's legacy, his connection to practices of migration and detention, and the more-than-human mobilities that underpin biosecurity.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KGVWT...
Coming in to land? More-than-human mobilities, biosecurity, and practices of coexistence
Geographies of more-than-human relations have flourished in the past decade, offering innovative methodological and conceptual approaches to studying how humans are entangled with an array of anima...
www.tandfonline.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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My PhD on geoengineering, Producing the Climate, is now available to read via USyd library! Huge thanks to my wonderful supervisors @garethbryant.bsky.social and @kurtiveson.bsky.social as well as my generous examiners @geoffmann.bsky.social and Chantel Carr. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
ses.library.usyd.edu.au
February 11, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I've neglected this for a while but have made a couple of new additions to the Critical Border Studies starter pack go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN Shout out to our friends @polgeographygroup.bsky.social who are now on Bluesky
February 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Hello from the new social digs of the Political Geography Study Group of the Institute of Australian Geographers 👋 We'll be at the upcoming conference in Newcastle June 30-July 5 and we hope to see you there!
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM